Todd Pagano has been teaching chemistry at NTID since 2002, when he established the program he directs.

Written by

James Goodman
| Staff writer

Todd Pagano was hired a decade ago to direct a laboratory science program at the Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

In the years since, Pagano has had great success helping students who have gone through NTID's Laboratory Science Technology program get jobs.

His accomplishments were recognized Thursday at a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, where he was awarded the prestigious Outstanding Master's Universities and Colleges Professor of the Year. He was selected from a pool of almost 300 candidates. ...